Wildness Quotes - Page 5

• If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded, Through this evolving awareness, and his awareness of that awareness, he can emerge with the miraculous-to which we can attach what better name than 'God'? And in this merging, as long sensed by intuition but still only vaguely perceived by rationality, experience may travel without need for accompanying life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  God, Wisdom, Science

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• Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.179, Yale University Press

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• We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Stupid, Stupidity, Waste

  "The Salt Eaters".

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• As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Dark, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

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• The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

  Eban Goodstein

  Passion, Climate, Logic

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• Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys to southeastern Canada. He bears witness not only to wilderness that still sustains bears, panthers, and bobcats but also to the possibilities for connecting further wildways in the eastern United States. His inspiring journey reminds us all that we must rediscover the wildness we still have before we lose it forever.

  Michael Brune

  Recovery, Journey, Keys

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• Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Practice, Grace

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, Ambition, People

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• There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Judging, Arrogance, World

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.50, Crown

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• Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

  Anthony Head

  Country, Wonderful, Farming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

  Washington Irving

  Nature, Forests, Study

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.310

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• We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Nature, Children

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Laughing, Shining, Gold

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• I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Color, Names

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Mad, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Freedom, People, Stuff

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.30, Penguin

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• We need the tonic of wildness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Health, Environmental

  "Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats".

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• I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

  Deny King

  Beautiful, Sea, Mountain

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• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Love, Beach, Fall

  1968 'The Great American Frustration', in the Saturday Review, 9 Jul.

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• In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Curves, Needs

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Wall, Real

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Success, Stress, Healthy

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• If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Stories, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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